March 27-A friend of mine, Joon Park, was IHS Class of 2013, and he now attends Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. From what I understand, he is currently double majoring in Physics and Music Composition, and I believe he has a minor in some other field.
He was back in Ithaca this week on spring break and he came in to observe our Music Theory class at the high school. He reminded me about how two years ago, there was a Fight Song Competition at IHS in an effort to increase school spirit.
As it turned out, he was the only person to submit an entry, and we never even played his piece in Pep Band. IHS has a very underwhelming sense of school spirit, and I think it is because of the diversity Ithaca has to offer.
There are so many different demographics that feed into the ICSD system, it is hard to find a common bond between all of them. Even the Ithaca High School Wikipedia page speaks of the wide demographic.
"The [Ithaca] schools have children of professors at Cornell University and Ithaca College, who would not be rattled by a dinner-table chat about quantum physics. They also have students from Ithaca's poorer streets and from the hardscrabble farms and mobile homes in the villages that surround this Finger Lakes city."
My goal in writing this alma mater is to create something for everyone to latch onto and be proud of. I want to make this the common bond between all Ithaca High School students.
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